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Weaverwood opens tonight, Mannywood tomorrow
Jeff Weaver will be activated for tonight's game from the DL, with a corresponding move to follow soon.
As for Andre Ethier, what more can you really say? The guy has been arguably the best offensive player in baseball for five weeks. Hopefully it'll begin to rub off on those around him…
Joe Torre also said that Manny would be back tomorrow night, so that means we'll likely start seeing fans returning quickly to Mannywood. Let's hope he starts out as hot as he was when he got hurt.
For tonight, X Paul is in his place…here's the lineup:
Paul, LF
Kemp, CF
Ethier, RF
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Martin, C
DeWitt, 2B
Carroll, SS
Kuroda, P
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"Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon said in a 55-page ruling that Jamie McCourt would receive $225,000 a month in spousal support and Frank McCourt will pay $412,159 a month for the couple?s six homes and a condominium."
There was no ruling, however, on whether the Dodgers, a team based in Los Angeles, California, USA, and currently owned by some bizarre combination of the two, would receive any pitching settlement.
Josh, Weaverwood? Give me a break! Seriously, Weaver has had some good moments on the mound for the Dodgers and the pitching staff can use all the help it can get.
DRE'LAND would be better 🙂 He sure has earned it!
Good Evening All………..
Andre is AMAZING!!!
Enjoy the game everyone!!
Hi Everybody.
Talk about a "man crush", oh well at my age, who cares?
You know if Broxton didn't blow the save, Mr. Walkoff 'Dre would've never got to perform what has become his famous act.
And I give all the credit to our beloved Scully who practically called the save and jinxed Broxton or for that matter Ely, who pitched a sensation game.
Truebluewill and I were hoping Ely would do it at Citi field, like Eric Stults did one day when we were at Shea.
At the time we didn't know each other though but we were both at Stults' game..
I knew bpb3 was crash I wonder who's bpb2?
Weaverwood — Really?
lol Weaverwood wooooooooooohoooooooooooo
CARROLL with his 2nd rare RBI.
Good AB by Russ to get the runner over.
DeWitt not so good.
But Carroll bailed him out for a change!!
Thank you Mr. Ely. And as a reward, first we're going to blow your win, and second, here's your plane (or is it bus now?) ticket back to Albuquerque.
This dumb bunch of ******** can't even part with Ortiz or Haeger. Any wonder why we're in last?
cough cough bear I can't believe you did that and wow the Giants lost.
1 down and 2 more to go Giants
I think Kempland is better lol
Mannywood should be banned I like Paulwood better lol.
Kuroda is strugling.
ok who mess up and allowed Fowler to go to 2nd bases lol
Hey that's the same guy.
The beardless one.
Kuroda looks like he needs help.
Can George do it?
Welcome back Weaver.
Geez blow save by Sherrill I hate when they credited this stats when it was Kuroda problem and his error.
Other words Moyer is the older pitcher to throw a CG/SHO.
Carroll where are these hits when you have someone on base and not empty?
I can't believe Torre sacrificing with a position player.
Hi ITD,
So battle of the bullpens, who you think wins that?
What an incredible 6th inning. Go Dodgers! We need this win.
IT'S ABOUT TIME KEMP. Damn.
Good job Matty! Dre you shall do it later! now this game is ours to win.
Good job Matty! Dre you shall do it later! now this game is ours to win.
Sorry about my double post, way to go troncoso,
Luckily the Dodgers remembered to bring their magnets with them.
Other news Pierre goes 0/6 and not missing a beat but the his teammate goes 2/5 and just keep on hitting and not slowing down one bit.
I wish this blog had an edit feature because I hate making a dumb mistake when I type so fast and don't proofread my comment.
Nice job, Troncoso!
Herrrrrrre's Johnny!!!!
Here we go again can we get a 1.2.3 innings are is that too much to ask?
Brox has to be like last night NEVER HAPPENED.
BIG J-knoxthem
There goes Scully again.
Way to go Russell!!!
What does Johnny say?
Fu Qy'all!!!!!!!!!!
Latest announcement on the screen at Dodger Stadium: "field level fans are invited to go toi Dodger Talk in the baseline restaurant. Before anyone could go..
Go Jonathan! Doodgers win! Most important!
Way to go Brox…….Nice win Dodgers!!!!!
woohoo! fantastic! Thanks Matty, Thanks Big Jon Thanks Dodgers!
He also probaly saying last night game was a fluke. See that and Giambi is more of a threat than Stairs of all people . Yeah Weaverwood with his 100th career wins lol MLB need to change that rule and if wasn't for Kuroda error they would had still had the lead and Sherrill would still had a hold.
Now Sherrill would get an undeserved BS which he didn't and I only like blown save when the relievers give up the tying run not when they on bases for them to strand.
Can we get Beimel back and trade them Sherrill and Ortiz?
Look like both Weaver brother won tonight.
Paul need to played everyday and he would get that chance but seriously why waste him on the bench and considing he was out for the season last year? I doubt he have any option now since he been in are organization for 7 years now.
"I don't fit here right now, that's it," Paul said after being consoled by teammates Casey Blake and Matt Kemp. "Right now, I just don't cut it here."
Paul said he was told by general manager Ned Colletti to work on his mental approach to the game "and being a big leaguer."
"To me, he's the boss, his opinion matters," said Paul. "As a player, I have to respect that. It's his team. At the end of the day, my thought is to keep working hard and keep playing like every day is my last. I know the situation with Manny coming back tomorrow. It is what it is. It's a decision they have to make."
Translation: "I'll respect Ned Colletti when the sun rises in the west."
I guess, in Ned Colletti's universe, anyway, "being a big leaguer" means throwing your players under the bus in the media. Sick. Send Paul back to AAA if you'd rather keep Anderson or Johnson instead, or because Paul has options left, but don't cloak it in all this BS rhetoric.
Geez time warp my post should've had falling under dodge.
Afterall, why keep Paul when you have the fantastic .116 hitting GA on your team?!
Why would you leave a kid that appears to have a big league future thinking that he "doesn't cut it"? Exactly what Kahli said – be honest and tell him its a numbers game and right now he has options left. Or tell him you want him playing everyday at AAA rather than sitting on the bench in L.A. Why in hell would you ever leave him feeling that he doesn't cut it?
I used to think that Ned was just a dimwitted dufuss. Now I'm thinking he's just a miserable mean-spirited a-hole.
Way to build up your personnel Ned.
I've got to say its getting harder and harder by the day to not root against this franchise under its current leadership. I won't root against the players, but in the end I really don't care anymore if this team loses 100 games.
Neds a certified idiot… when weaver came up ortiz should have been given his walking papers, when manny comes up it should be GA getting his walking papers… no wonder this team sucks… I wonder if ned is gonna realize to win you have to have your best players…
Ned's true colors ar showing and, yes, BPB1, he is an A-hole!!!!
Let's be honest something tell me Weaver would be in the starting rotation if Haeger fair one more time and of course that probably Ned reason why to keep Ortiz. If you really think GA was going to be released you guy aren't learning. Paul need to played everyday something GA doesn't need to do. GA=Sweeney with more pop if Sweeney wasn't released neither is GA. This team sucks because they losing on purpose hoping the attendance would drop so Frank could sell the team and Ned be fired.
What is really sad is the fact that Paul has shown he does belong.
Shad ~ Paul would get enough playing time because Joe will rest Manny a lot. I'd much rather have Xavier at bat with the game on the line than GA.
oops fair=fail
He and Reed could take turns and, they both can hit when called upon, don't you think?
Gosh damn it how does these Giants keep on coming back.
Joe and Ned are PVL guys. It's the history of their shared regime. We'll have to bear with it as long as Joe is the manager. Ned? He likes to "build" his team in late July, when even more PVLs become available. He's a reflection of Joe. Ned had neither the expertise nor the vision to create his own blueprint. But I agree with enchanted. He's becoming more and more a Blue Meanie…a real Nowhere Man…more and more isloated, one of the bitter Lonely People…a cowardly under cutter of players' psyche, a real Yellow Submarine.
Yep he does but this is Torre we talking about I just don't believe him lol. I think the plan here was to give him around 450+ ab's since he have no future in are top 3 OF's and poor Kerry Wood just got off the DL and already given up 2 runs in 2 2/3.
If Frank would come out of his cave long enough to take an interest in what's going on with the team, perhaps he might want to take a look at how his GM is alienating his players. What I'm seeing is a GM imploding and going off the deep end.
Perhaps what we should be doing though is praying that our favorite players DO get traded so that they have some sort of chance to fulfill their promise and play for a franchise that not only values them, but values winning as well.
This one does neither.
lol Red Sox fan hate Beltre. I think Boston pitching is worst than are.
I don't think you can really compare Repko and Paul but I always seem if I guy get drafted in 2003 or early than that and finally had a chance last year to prove himself before the staple infection that cost him a whole year and have to be sent down because they won't dfa GA. He has no future for us but you know I love to keep him but do Torre have a say on this that he rather keep Paul over Anderson are not?
I have a feeling Ned would put up a big package to bad losing Josh Bell and Carlos Santana hurt until we see when they get a chance in the major. I really didn't want Casey Blake I known there was another 3rd basemen in the minor they was killing the ball or maybe we should've had struck with Dewitt.
Nice to see Mota give up the dinger to lose the game for the Giants!
I was just going to post that one.
In the near future I still want an OF of Lambo (but I don't know and he need to clean his act up a little bit), Kemp and Ethier. Last year people was criticize Loney for the lack of power just maybe Paul, Kemp and Ethier with Lambo playing 1st in the near future.
Wow Tot Holmes were right when we drafted Lambo. I surely hope Logan White didn't make a big mistake on this one.
Anyone watching fox? One of the announce didn't know Ethier was up there in the triple crowd but Pedoria and Ethier are friend from there days in Arizona.
2010 Dodger Offense
Split G Runs R/G PA HR BA/OBP/SLG OPS BABIP
w/Manny 15 98 6.53 634 18 .311/.382/.485 .867 .346
w/o Manny 14 55 3.93 529 10 .241/.307/.378 .685 .290
Those numbers w/o are ugly.
However, despite Manny missing 14 games, no outfield trio has as many home runs (19) or runs batted in (65) as the Dodgers. Only the Tiger starting outfielders, with 63 runs, have more runs scored than the Dodgers (54).
Here is how Manny's replacements performed over the last 15 days:
Manny's Replacements in Left Field
Left Fielder Starts PA 2B-3B-HR R RBI BA/OBP/SLG OPS
Xavier Paul 6 27 3-1-0 7 1 .280/.333/.480 .813
Reed Johnson 5 23 2-1-0 1 2 .227/.261/.409 .670
Garret Anderson 3 12 0-0-0 0 0 .000/.000/.000 .000
Replacements 14 62 5-2-0 8 3 .203/.242/.356 .598
Manny 13 gms 52 4-0-2 7 12 .415/.500/.659 1.159
Manny started his time on the disabled list with 2,511 career hits, good for a five-hit lead over Anderson for 90th place on the all-time list. Manny will be activated today, 15 days later, and has a four-hit lead over Anderson
I felt bad for Paul.
Sorry Bear, but even with my latest rant about inviting only field level fans to Dodgertalk, I am still heading to the stadium soon. I would have missed the great performanc by Ely, the two walkoffs by Andre. Nope, I will continue to use my season tickets. I am going by myself again today as my brother hurt his knee a few days ago but that is OK.
If you want to read about my latest rant about Dodgertalk, is on my facebook and on my blog. I was going to call Dodgertalk last night but I did not want to drive and talk on the phone after the game and I did not want to sit in the car or outside and wait for them to get to my call.
LMAO Bear!! I agree!!
Don't forget Garrett Sweeney….our power off the bench!
Ramirez has been sidelined since April 23 with a strained right calf muscle. Paul was called up to replace him and hit .276 with one RBI, eight runs scored, five extra-base hits in 29 at-bats, three steals and seven strikeouts.
The Dodgers were 5-1 in games Paul started and 4-0 when he led off. (As opposed to 8-15 and 9-16 when he didn't)
I'm soooo glad that loser will be back in Albuquerque where he can't do anymore damage. I'm also looking forward to Garrett Sweeney playing left when Manny doesn't feel like playing tomorrow too.
K. Medlen 4.1 9 1 1 0 3 0 1.27 2.45
E. O'Flaherty (W, 2-1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.89 2.19
C. Kimbrel 0.1 0 0 0 2 0 0 2.25 0.00
P. Moylan 1.1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1.66 2.13
J. Venters 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.36 1.64
T. Saito 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1.00 3.00
B. Wagner (S, 4) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.82 1.64
I missed when are bullpen had some of those good ERA and it look like a freaking mess now.
blah even those I hate both team put the originial NY/Boston game back on fox. They would had 1 more hrs of playing with no rain but blah had to have the Braves and Phillies and now some other show is on.
The attendance last night was pretty high than the prior 2 games with the Brewers.
Amen Beav and Bear!!! Thank you for expressing my thoughts so succintly!!! That's the bottom line!!! Sending Paul down is a farce!!!!
I find Ned offensive!
Hey Wally nice to see you again
Hey Shad, you too!!! Keep the stats coming my friend!!!
lol NP I like the Braves bullpen more than our.
They just said SD had 3 earthquake.
I don't like beer. Anyway, time to get ready.
As bad as it has been thus far, we're still in it. Gotta'lot of games at home the next month, we aren't dead yet. We do seem to play well against our NL West opponents!!!! Hey, we've got the best player in the NL and maybe baseball, Andre!!!!!!
Hi'Ya CZ!!! How about a nice California Merlot?!!
I'm at a loss as to why Martin has struggled so badly the last year and a half. He's headed for a .250/8HR/35RBI season so far. Not exactly what we envisioned in 2007!! Geez, I'd be happy with .270/14/70 right now from the catcher!!!!
Hey Jhall!!! How are you?!!!!
So shall we start a pool to tap when and who the next player will be that Ned offends?
*ARE…..now I'm with you!.
I find Ned offensive!
:))) Doing well Nelly, thanks, how about you? Beav, Ned is just plain offensive!!!! LOL Trumom!! Welcome to real time. Enjoy it while it lasts!!!
I wish Ned would say something offensive about Joe…then, maybe, they would FIRE HIS ASSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frank the numbskull/numbnut (evidently) and Jamie the wh*re are much more offensive!!!!!
Well said Bear!!!
I am doing good jhall……………….just busy, with work mostly. May is always, always a busy month at school…………testing, end of the year paperwork (for this year and next) and Open House and such, but nothing to complain about really.
Messagebear – you have got all kinds of fun things to say today.
I think the "next offense" is a tough choice between Martin and Billz, but Ned already was a little snide with Martin regarding his offseason workouts, so I'm going to say Billz right after his next implosion on the mound, which will probably be his next start.
BTW, this blog software is Hovno.
BPB1 ~ You need to do a song….."Under The Bus" 🙂 I'm thinking of the Coasters …lol
Gosh sloppy 1st quarter step it up Lakers.
I was thinking more Queen Tru – Another Un-der the bus.
Hey! Ned'll get you too
Another under the bus…
Blah terrible 2nd so far given up 12 pts with 9:21 to go in the 2nd.
Tonight's lineup…….Martin, Kemp, Ethier, Manny, Loney, Blake, DeWitt, Carroll, Haeger.
Hi Everybody & MANNY.
Last night was another one of those games where you feel like you took a trip to last year. The bullpen bailed out Kuroda.
Well tonight it's Haeaeaeaeaeger and his butterfly. I hope the Knuckleballer can get it over the plate, like he did Tuesday night.
Nice to see that Maaanny Back.
I'm going back to Citi Field with my daughter tomorrow to see the Mets take on the Giants, Then we'll visit the Met's Hall of fame.
Rats!!! I think Haeger is headed for AAA tomorrow with Ely coming back up!!! At least I hope so!!!
LOL Bear!!! Don't let the bus door hit you Haeger, on your way out of town.
Take this Ortiz piece of crap with you Charlie!!! Geez!!!
Agreed Bear!!! F-ing Ned sells Stults to Japan and keeps Haeger!!! Wow, what an eye for talent!! Way to go Ned!!! Frank and Ned let Garland and Wolf go to save money. F'em both!!!


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MR. DAVID GREGORY: This Sunday, drawing the battle lines over the president's pick for the Supreme Court. The historic selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated to be America's first Latina justice.
PRES. BARACK OBAMA: What Sonia will bring to the court then is not only the knowledge and experience acquired over a course of a brilliant legal career, but the wisdom accumulated from an inspiring life's journey.
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MR. GREGORY: But as the GOP spoils for a fight, a growing debate about that background and bias.
MR. RUSH LIMBAUGH: She's a racist.
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MR. GREGORY: This morning, sorting through a judge's record on issues like abortion, activism and ideology. With us exclusively, the men at the center of the confirmation battle: chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont; and the top Republican on Judiciary, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama.
Also, the economy. Are signs of recovery premature? A chilling new jobs report expected next week.
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But first, here with us exclusively and for the first time together since the president nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrat Patrick Leahy and Republican Jeff Sessions.
Welcome both of you. Good to have you here.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D-VT): Thank you, David.
SEN. JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL): Thank you.
MR. GREGORY: The first flash point in this nomination of Judge Sotomayor surrounds the issue of race and personal experience. The comments that she made back in 2001 have captured a lot of people's attention, and I want to put them on the screen here in wider context than we've heard them discussed this week because I think the context is important, and I want to get your reaction. This is what she said: "I...accept that our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions. The aspiration to impartiality is just that--it's an aspiration because it denies the fact that we are by our experiences making different choices than others. ... Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that wise old men and wise old--and a wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am...not so sure that I agree with the statement. ... I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who wasn't lived that life. ... Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what the difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage."
Senator Sessions, are you troubled by that?
SEN. SESSIONS: Well, yes, because the entire concept of the American rule of law is blindfolded justice, that the judge sets aside their personal and political and biases of any kind and gives an objective ruling on the law and on the facts. People have to believe that or they lose respect for the law. They--the marvelous moral authority of the law can be undermined if people think that the decision's being made by--on the basis of a judge's personal views or biases or background. And I don't--I think that's--I read her piece, it's very interesting. I think it's something we need to probe. But I think it goes against the great heritage of American law that calls for judges to be a neutral umpire, as John Roberts said.
MR. GREGORY: You will see her this week. What specifically will you ask her on this point?
SEN. SESSIONS: Well, I will talk to her about that. There was a lot in that speech that was interesting, a lot that was troubling to me. I think we ought to be honest about it and give her a full, fair opportunity to explain what she meant in its context.
MR. GREGORY: But you think what she means is clear with the wider context of what she's saying in the essay overall.
SEN. SESSIONS: Well, well, let me say, I, I think President Obama has set the tone for that. He's talked about a judge who has empathy and empathy for certain groups, and he specifically named groups.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
SEN. SESSIONS: And that to me also is a troubling philosophy. It goes against the heart of the great American heritage of an independent judge.
MR. GREGORY: Before I get to you, Senator Leahy, Republicans outside the Senate, conservatives, have mounted a pretty fierce reaction in their criticism of her remarks. Former House Speaker Gingrich has called this racism, and he says new, new racism is no better than old racism. And Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio talk show host, called it reverse racism earlier in the week, and later in the week he went even further. This is what he said.
MR. LIMBAUGH: She brings a form of bigotry or racism to the court. I don't care, we're not supposed to say it, we're supposed to pretend it didn't happen. We're supposed to look at, at other things. But it's the elephant in the room. The real question here that needs to be asked, and nobody on our side, from a columnist to a TV commentator to anybody in our party has the guts to ask: How can a president nominate such a candidate, and how can a party get behind such a candidate? That's what would be asked if somebody were foolish enough to nominate David Duke or pick somebody even less offensive.
(End videotape)
MR. GREGORY: Calling her racist, a reverse racist, comparing her to David Duke. Do you think that's appropriate?
SEN. SESSIONS: I don't think I'm going to use any such words as that. I read her speech. I'm troubled by her speech. I think she has an opportunity to explain that. And I don't think we--that I'm going to use such loaded words. People on the outside can say what they choose to say.
MR. GREGORY: But wait, but do you make a judgment about that? Do you think they're appropriate?
SEN. SESSIONS: I don't think those are words...
MR. GREGORY: You think that's fair?
SEN. SESSIONS: ...that I would use. And I don't think--I don't--they would not be words that I would use.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. SESSIONS: But we need to focus on what...
MR. GREGORY: Do you think she's a racist?
SEN. SESSIONS: ...she would say.
MR. GREGORY: Do you think she's a racist?
SEN. SESSIONS: I think that she is a person who believes that her background can influence her decision. That's what troubles me.
MR. GREGORY: Right. Right.
SEN. SESSIONS: I would not use those words.
MR. GREGORY: You would not use those words because you don't believe them?
SEN. SESSIONS: I don't think that's an appropriate description of her.
MR. GREGORY: Right. Do you think that conservatives should stop using those words to describe her?
SEN. SESSIONS: I would prefer that they not, but people have a free right to speak and say what they want and make the analogies that they want. This is an important thing. We should not demagogue race. It's an important issue in our culture and our country. We need to handle it with respect that it deserves and the care that it deserves.
MR. GREGORY: Senator Leahy, are you troubled by her remarks?
SEN. LEAHY: Well, I've talked to her about her remarks and, and we will during the hearing. But in answer to the question you asked my friend Jeff Sessions, I totally reject those kind of claims made by leaders of the Republican Party like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh. To call her--to equate her with the head of the Ku Klux Klan, to call her a bigot, this is baloney. Nothing in her background would indicate that she is a, a bigot or equivalent of the Ku Klux Klan or anything else. This is a woman who has a compelling story; growing up in the, in the projects, her father working as a welder with a third grade education dies when she's a child, her mother works hard as a, as a nurse to put her through school. She works hard to put her through school, graduates with honors both in undergraduate and in law school, becomes a prosecutor and a--and both Senator Sessions and I are former prosecutors. We know all the life experiences you get there. She was a corporate lawyer. She spent more time on a federal--between the trial bench and the appellate bench in the federal court than anybody in the last hundred years who's come...
MR. GREGORY: It's not about qualifications, it's a separate issue.
SEN. LEAHY: No, but it is about qualifications. And for her to talk about her life experience, is this any different than Judge Alito who talked about, well, if an immigration, the matter came before him he would certainly--or Justice Alito, he would certainly think about the experience of his grandparents coming here from Italy and so on, or when Justice Thomas had the same kind of expression...
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. LEAHY: ...when his hearing. Everybody--it would be ridiculous to think somebody's life experience doesn't affect them. My experience as a prosecutor and in private practice affects me. The fact that I'm the first Leahy since the family came in 1850 to Vermont, the first one to get a college degree, that affects me.
MR. GREGORY: Senator Sessions, is it appropriate to take into account one's personal story, even a history of discrimination?
SEN. SESSIONS: I don't believe that's the ideal of a judge in the American system. I think a judge should be a neutral arbiter of the disputes between the two parties. And if you are an individual citizen going before a judge in a court...
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. SESSIONS: ...you would expect that judge to fairly rule on what the evidence was and what the law was and not what their personal background is.
MR. GREGORY: All right, but to that point...
SEN. SESSIONS: That's the--it's...
MR. GREGORY: ...Judge Alito, during his confirmation...
SEN. SESSIONS: Yeah.
MR. GREGORY: ...hearing, President Bush's choice, you supported him, he said this back in 2006.
(Videotape, January 11, 2006)
JUDGE SAMUEL ALITO: When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think about people in my own family who, who suffered discrimination because of their ethnic background or because of religion or, or because of gender. And, and I do take that into account.
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MR. GREGORY: You think that's a problem?
SEN. SESSIONS: Well, everybody should have empathy. Everybody should have feelings and sensitivities to other human beings and show that in, in their life and in their compassion to people. But a judge is required, I think, to be neutral, to rule on the law and the facts and not allow their personal experience to override that. She said in her written remarks that she felt that perhaps even in most cases a person should aspire to overcome their personal experiences, but that they, in most cases they may not.
MR. GREGORY: Is this a...
SEN. SESSIONS: So that was a pretty troubling thing to me.
MR. GREGORY: Yeah.
SEN. SESSIONS: But I think she has--let me just say this. This lady has got a good record, as Pat says, for a judge: prosecutor, lawyer, judge, district trial judge, federal judge. She's smart.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. SESSIONS: She's capable. She needs to have the opportunity to explain this.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. SESSIONS: And I think she can explain some of it, and, and we'll ask questions about it, and she should expect a rigorous but fair hearing.
MR. GREGORY: Your view is she is qualified to be on the Supreme Court.
SEN. SESSIONS: Oh, she's got the kind of background you would look for, almost an ideal mix of private practice, prosecution, trial judge and circuit judge. That's very strong in her favor.
SEN. LEAHY: I, I am very impressed with her. I--when President George H.W. Bush first nominated her to the court I was happy to vote for her, when President Clinton then nominated her to another federal court I was happy to vote for her, all based on her merits. It would be absolutely wrong to assume that people's individual experience...
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
SEN. LEAHY: ...doesn't at least influence their thinking. That doesn't mean they can't follow the law. They--that doesn't mean that somebody is going to go up there and say, "Man, I had an experience like this, but the law is clear on it."
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. LEAHY: They're going to follow the law. Of course she is. And as Senator Session says, she's going to have--she'll be questioned about that, and that's fair. She should be questioned about it. And we'll give her a chance very soon to do that.
MR. GREGORY: One more question on this point, and that is this New Haven case that has been debated where she...
SEN. SESSIONS: The Ricci case.
MR. GREGORY: The Ricci case. She played a major role, in which you had a group of white firefighters who sued the city because they passed a promotion exam, the city did not recognize it because no African-Americans passed that same exam. And it was Judge Sotomayor who upheld the, the city's decisions when they decided not to recognize that promotion test.
SEN. LEAHY: As did, as did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Barrington Parker, who is a Republican, nominated by a Republican president. Said she was bound--not matter how you feel about it, she was bound by the precedence of the Second Circuit, which she...
MR. GREGORY: Well...
SEN. LEAHY: ...which she followed. Now, the U.S. Supreme Court may decide to reverse those precedents, which it can. But she was--whether she liked it or not, she was following the law. It's, it's the kind of judge that the Republicans always say they want, somebody who doesn't make law but follows the law.
MR. GREGORY: The White House says, Senator Sessions, that in more than 80 percent of the cases Judge Sotomayor has rejected race claims. Are you troubled by this decision?
SEN. SESSIONS: I'm, I'm a little bit troubled. It was a divided court, pretty strongly divided. Hispanic judge criticized Judge Sotomayor pretty aggressively for not dealing with the serious constitutional questions that arise when you take a person who made the best score on the test and then invalidate it for basically a racial concern. And so that requires a careful analysis by the court. He criticized her and her panel for not carefully analyzing it. That was his criticism, and I think she'll need to explain that.
MR. GREGORY: Let, let me move on to the broader question of a judge's ideology, and whether senators should weigh that in taking on a vote like this. President Obama said in his weekly radio address this weekend that the Senate should really move on from such considerations. This is what he said.
(Videotape, Saturday)
PRES. OBAMA: But what I hope is that we avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this process and Congress in the past.
(End videotape)
MR. GREGORY: And yet, Senator Leahy, back in 2006 it was Senator Obama who supported a filibuster against Judge Alito, who made it very clear that ideology should be a factor in determining a judge's record and said this back in 2006.
(Audiotape, January 31, 2006)
PRES. OBAMA: There are some who believe that the president, having won the election, should have complete authority to appoint his nominee, and that the Senate should only examine whether or not the justice is intellectually capable and is nice to his wife, or she is nice to her husband; that once you get beyond issues of intellect and personal character, then there shouldn't be further question as to whether the judge should be confirmed. I disagree with this view.
(End audiotape)
SEN. LEAHY: Well...
MR. GREGORY: Is he trying to have it both ways?
SEN. LEAHY: Well, I, I don't know...
MR. GREGORY: I mean, either you give deference to the president or you don't.
SEN. LEAHY: Well, he looks at it one view, of course, as a senator, and a different view as a president. I've only had the opportunity and only will ever have the opportunity to look at it as a, as a senator. I've voted on every single member of the current Supreme Court. I'm aware of the ideology of each of them. I voted for a number of Republican nominees on the Court. But--and I, I have a rule, I will not meet with special interest groups of either the right or the left. I remember some of the liberal groups picketing my office, complaining I was going to vote for Justice Souter and that he would be against women's rights. Well, he's turned out to be, of course, a strong supporter of women's rights. I look at the justice themselves. We'll have a full hearing. Every one of these issues will be brought up. I'm disturbed when I see a Republican group saying, even an hour before she was actually nominated, "Oh, you must reject her"; others going on TV, leaders of the Republican Party, like Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, saying you, you must reject her. We haven't even had the hearing. To their credit, no Republican senator has stepped up and made statements like that. They've all said let's have the hearing. We'll have a hearing, ask her the questions, make up your mind. This is--you know, there's only 101 people who get to choose on the Supreme Court justice: the president and the 100 members of the Senate.
MR. GREGORY: OK, let me ask you this. When will these hearings start? Will you have her in place, if she's confirmed, by the August recess, Senator?
SEN. SESSIONS: I think that's rushing it. I believe that she has over 3,000, maybe 4,000-plus opinions that need to be examined. And I think there's no need for us to do that. We do need to do it by October. That's when Justice Souter will be stepping down.
MR. GREGORY: Right. President Obama wants it sooner than that.
SEN. LEAHY: The--some of the White House probably like it next month, which would be June.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. LEAHY: That may be, and I think that probably would be too soon. Most of these cases we've talked about are pro forma cases. It's, it's not going to take a lawyer much time to, to figure out that. Our staff's had all those cases, they've done that. Senator Sessions and I have worked closely together, we agreed on the questionnaire for her. She--that--those answers should be here this week, then I'll decide when we're going to set it. But I'll tell you one thing that, that is going to influence the timing of when I will set this hearing is all these attacks are going out against her, she can't answer them.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
SEN. LEAHY: As a judge, she has to sit back there; some of the most vicious attacks, being called bigoted...
MR. GREGORY: Right.
SEN. LEAHY: ...calling her racist, saying that no Republican should be allowed to vote for her. I intend to give her an opportunity as soon as possible to answer those...
MR. GREGORY: Will you--as you sit here now, do you meet the president's timetable?
SEN. LEAHY: I will meet my timetable.
MR. GREGORY: And that could be different.
SEN. LEAHY: It could be different.
MR. GREGORY: Senator Sessions, are you prepared to say now that a filibuster will not happen?
SEN. SESSIONS: I don't think that's appropriate for me to say. I think it's unlikely, but we'll have to see how this hearing plays out. President Obama filibustered Alito. So it's...
MR. GREGORY: Right. But you don't see it here? You think it's unlikely here.
SEN. SESSIONS: But I, I feel like a filibuster should not be used readily and ought to be for extraordinary circumstances.
MR. GREGORY: Final point: Is there political peril for Republicans opposing the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice?
SEN. SESSIONS: I think it's important that this nominee be given a fair hearing, that the American people, all the American people feel like this was fairly discussed. But these are important issues, and if she evidences a philosophy that would justify her setting policy on the bench, going beyond what the case called for her to go on, promoting her own personal agenda in, in the guise of making decisions, then that could be a basis to vote no.
SEN. LEAHY: (Unintelligible)...could I add, add just one thing...
MR. GREGORY: Very quickly.
SEN. LEAHY: ...on the timing. I certainly understand why the president wants her in there soon. In the Senate, we have to determine what the time's going to be. I, I, I agree with the president, he's made a good choice. I agree with him, we should have it soon. But I'm going to have to make that decision of when, when the hearing will be, in consultation with Senator Sessions.
SEN. SESSIONS: Mm-hmm.
MR. GREGORY: All right, we'll leave it there for now. Thank you both for joining us this morning.
SEN. SESSIONS: Thank you.
SEN. LEAHY: Thank you.
MR. GREGORY: And coming next, the economy. Are we seeing real signs of a recovery? And what will be the impact of a General Motors bankruptcy? Our conversation from Friday evening from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with three key CEOs: Anne Mulcahy of Xerox, Google's Eric Schmidt and Caterpillar's Jim Owens. Plus, our political roundtable weighs in next on MEET THE PRESS.
MR. GREGORY: Our discussion on the economy with three top CEOs from the floor of the New York Stock exchange; it's after this brief commercial break.
MR. GREGORY: We're back. On Friday evening, just after the closing bell, I sat down to talk about the troubled economy with the CEOs of three major companies: Jim Owens of Caterpillar, Anne Mulcahy of Xerox and Eric Schmidt of Google.
And welcome all of you. Here we are on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, one of the nerve centers of the American economy, and yet the grim news that surrounds this floor is about General Motors. General Motors is about to enter bankruptcy, it is likely to no longer be part of the Dow.
Jim Owens, what is the significance to this economy of GM going into bankruptcy?
MR. JIM OWENS: That's a--you know, the auto industry in general globally, I think, is a--has got significant excess capacity. And in the case of the U.S. auto industry, they had a, a problem in terms that they were cost competitive in the global economy. So the bankruptcy and the chance to reorganize and to re-establish an industry that is competitive with the products they build in the domestic economy and hopefully internationally is one that GM should take. I think they've made significant improvements operationally the last few years, but with their labor costs and with the excess number of dealers they had, they just weren't in a position to compete without restructuring.
MR. GREGORY: But, Anne Mulcahy, this is also a brand issue.
MS. ANNE MULCAHY: Yes.
MR. GREGORY: This is the great American brand of General Motors. How do they emerge out of bankruptcy to the point where people are actually going to buy their cars again? At Xerox, at the height of the problem for your company, you said, "Unh-unh, we're not going into bankruptcy."
MS. MULCAHY: Right.
MR. GREGORY: "It's a bad idea."
MS. MULCAHY: Yeah.
MR. GREGORY: Do you think it's a bad idea here?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think it's the only idea here, so I think we're at a point where it is the right path. And, you know, as Jim said, it, it requires a dramatic restructuring of the industry. And that can either happen outside of or, or inside of bankruptcy, and in this case there is no other path at this point. I do think that, you know, the American people want an American car industry, and if things are done correctly there will be an appetite to continue to support it. But it's going to have to be one that demonstrates that it's sustainable in the long term.
MR. GREGORY: Eric Schmidt, is America, is the United States still the global leader in manufacturing?
MR. ERIC SCHMIDT: It, it can be and it should be, because we have the best scientists, the best technology, the best manufacturing processes worldwide. Some industries have run into trouble, too much capital, too much inventory, as we've talked about. But the fact of the matter is that there's a great opportunity for the laid off workers who are very highly skilled to move into new industries. New--for example, the energy industries, in batteries and that sort of thing.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. SCHMIDT: And America can be a leader in other industries, just because of General Motor's failure.
MR. GREGORY: I want to show you the, the cover of The Economist that is out this weekend, "Business in America: Its next problem is big government." And you've got Uncle Sam with all the leverage, with all the control over American business.
Anne, how big of a problem is this? How does the investor factor in the government's role in trying to, to rescue this economy in terms of its impact on business?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think it's a delicate balance. I think all of us understand the need for the government to intervene and take the actions they did, whether it was for the financial services industry or the stimulus plan, but I also think there's a need for an exit plan, that this has to be one that's thought through.
MR. GREGORY: Right. But do you think there is an exit plan? Have we heard from this president, from this Treasury secretary where the off ramp is for all of this intervention in the market?
MS. MULCAHY: I think we've heard the intent, I don't think we've heard the details.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm. Eric:
MR. SCHMIDT: The stimulus package was designed around a two-year window, and literally be done in two years. It's very important the government get out of business and let business do its thing. The most important thing to remember, I think, is that jobs, wealth are created in the private sector. That's about capitalism. The other thing that has to happen is we've got to change the rules so we don't end up with all these organizations that are too big to fail again.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. SCHMIDT: And go have to bail them out again. We've done a fine job bailing them out, let's only do this once per lifetime.
MR. GREGORY: Well, but that's also the question, Jim, which is there is a, a dynamic in the American economy where jobs are lost every year, where businesses go under; and yet we've determined, the government has, that GM is too big to fail, so it's going to have a 72 percent stake, likely, at the end of this, in General Motors. That's a scary prospect.
MR. OWENS: Yeah.
MR. GREGORY: You've got the federal government going to run General Motors.
MR. OWENS: Yeah. I think that's fundamental unhealthy. The federal government needs to be in and out, they need to help get the restructuring done. But I think fundamentally the American public, I think they want to choose the best vehicle, the best car, and American manufacturers need to be focused on competing.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. OWENS: And having the, the best product, best product technology and be cost competitive, and they should also focus on export.
MR. GREGORY: What happens to GM? What kind of company is it on the other side of this?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think it's, it's a smaller, it's a leaner company for sure. Clearly it is a company that will have the ability to invest in the future vs. just protect the past, which it has been. That's hugely important to being able to respond to what really are the requirements to really produce the kind of vehicles that Jim's talked about. And they have got to get a break from the legacy and move on and focus on the future, and that means they'll be smaller and they will be a leaner--they will have to make tough choices...
MR. SCHMIDT: And they're...
MS. MULCAHY: ...about what they do.
MR. SCHMIDT: They're also going to be highly incentivized...
MS. MULCAHY: Absolutely.
MR. SCHMIDT: ...to get all that government money back out.
MS. MULCAHY: Exactly.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. SCHMIDT: Because the last thing you want is the government in your board room telling you what to do.
MR. GREGORY: Let me talk about the economy more generally.
MS. MULCAHY: Right.
MR. GREGORY: Again, we're on the floor of the stock exchange. Several months ago the Dow was at about 6500, it closed just above 8500. And the market, in terms of charting a direction, has been upward. It's not falling. It maybe comes back a little bit if there's overconfidence, but it's generally from 6500 to 8500.
Eric, has confidence returned?
MR. SCHMIDT: Well, I would say we're exactly on schedule if you look at what, what has happened. We had the huge stimulus package, the intervention globally in all the financial markets, more than $10 trillion of capital guaranteed or generated literally out of thin air to recover from the banking crisis, which is largely behind us. Looks like sometime over the summer will be the business low, sometime in the early part of 2010 we'll see the unemployment high. We're in a classic recovery of a very long and hard recession. The question now is what's next? What kind of a recovery? What happens in 2010? What happens in 2011? We're right on schedule. And if you're one of these people who's, for example, trying to refinance your mortgage right now at the lowest rates possible, or you trying to sell your house at a much lower price, you can sell it.
MR. GREGORY: You two are seeing maybe a slightly different environment. It's very difficult for Xerox right now, it has been for the, for the balance of the year. What do you see out there? Is there renewed confidence?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think some things are working better, there's no question.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MS. MULCAHY: Credit markets are working better, I think there is some, some positive signals. I think that I would characterize it as we've seen a, a flattening out. We're not in a spiral down. But I think the big question mark is the pace of recovery. And for most of us it would be difficult to plan for a--any kind of aggressive, positive uptick right now.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MS. MULCAHY: So I think there's a fairly conservative view as to we may have leveled out, but it is very unclear as to when things will improve.
MR. GREGORY: Let me stay on this point, because one of the really important parts of--and it's a complex part of our financial system--is access to credit.
MR. SCHMIDT: Mm-hmm.
MR. GREGORY: Now, so for the consumer, I'm feeling the pinch in terms of my credit card, in terms of my rate, or if I want to get a loan for something. But for businesses, too, you're feeling a pinch.
So, Jim, what kind of access are you getting to credit? Are, are you getting less? Are the terms stricter? And how is it impacting business?
MR. OWENS: Well, we're a--fortunately have a pretty strong balance sheet and have an A, A1/P1 rating, so. But the credit crisis in the fourth quarter has severe impact on our business, and commercial paper markets literally almost shut down our ability to issue medium-term notes in our finance subsidiary.
MR. GREGORY: Explain exactly what that means.
MR. OWENS: Well, medium-term notes would be three- to five-year notes which we would go to the market with in the financial markets, and then we would slice those down and be able to lend to the small contractor. And when those markets kind of shut down around the world, our ability to finance the small contractor essentially was in question. So what's--the good thing is there was a, a real seizure in global credit markets in the fourth quarter. In the first quarter they began to get a little better, and in, in the last couple of months they have improved dramatically.
MR. GREGORY: What about the jobs picture? Are you, are you going to rehire? Has the stimulus allowed you to rehire? You got in this flap with President Obama a little bit about he said you'd be able to rehire.
MR. OWENS: Yeah, well.
MR. GREGORY: You said not so fast.
MR. OWENS: Well, a little timing issue here. Essentially, I mean, we've had to--you know, our demand for our products has dropped. We sold $51 billion worth of products globally last year, demand this year's going to be in the mid 30s. So a, a, a very large drop in demand for our products, therefore employment. So we have had to continue reducing employment, and I'd say we will probably not be able--in a position to rehire until mid next year as we see these markets begin to recover.
MR. GREGORY: At Xerox?
MS. MULCAHY: We're hiring, but very modestly. I mean, if you look at net head count, it's still coming down because that's what our intent is...
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MS. MULCAHY: ...until we're sure that things are improving. So I worry about that.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MS. MULCAHY: I think that's a big problem right now.
MR. GREGORY: And, Eric Schmidt, you know, one of my favorite questions to ask you is about the consumer, and what are some of the top searches on Google that indicate the mind-set of the consumer; the person who's looking for a job, maybe out of a job?
MR. SCHMIDT: It's mortgage refinance.
MR. GREGORY: Hm.
MR. SCHMIDT: And job listings.
MR. GREGORY: Yeah.
MR. SCHMIDT: We know people are looking very, very hard for bargains right now. We know people are in the market, people are active, the markets are beginning to clear. Inventories, as you know, are declining, which is a good sign.
MR. GREGORY: Let me ask you about the stimulus plan, a hundred days since it's been signed. Is it working? Are, are businesses seeing it?
MR. SCHMIDT: They're beginning to. The stimulus plan was, remember, a two-year program, and we're just at the beginning of that. It takes a while for all those shovel-ready projects to get through the bureaucracies at the state and local level, and that money is beginning to flow. People are getting to be, be hired.
MS. MULCAHY: Mm-hmm.
MR. SCHMIDT: You won't really see the economic impact in terms of both inventories and revenue and jobs till much later in the fall just because the amount of time it takes.
MR. GREGORY: Are you seeing it, Jim?
MR. OWENS: Well, I think what we're seeing right now, and I've been talking to our dealers all around the country, people are starting to bid work again. And this is--there's about $70 billion in the stimulus package. Keep in mind, that's about 6.5 percent of total U.S. construction, that level of spending. But it'll have a positive impact and I think we'll start to see that kick in through the summer and into the fall. I wouldn't be surprised if we don't need to come back with additional stimulus.
MR. GREGORY: The, the White House, I know, is bracing in this coming week for a jobs report that is going to be grim, with the unemployment rate climbing above 9 percent. And so I still go back to the stimulus. As you travel around the world and as your business in other parts of the world, are you feeling more of the effect of stimulus plans in places like China than you are in America?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think that, you know, China's probably the exception, because China clearly has put a tremendous amount of money very quickly. I think the U.S. is, you know, very much right behind China in terms of the aggressive nature of the stimulus and the timing and the pace of the stimulus...
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MS. MULCAHY: ...vs. other parts of the world. But I would agree that it is early days. It would be tough to show a lot of tangible benefits right now from the stimulus plan.
MR. SCHMIDT: There's a huge divergence in outcomes, different countries. Russia, for example, is going to take many, many years to recover from the enormous bubble and burst that they went through, stock market financials, whereas China will do pretty well.
MR. GREGORY: Let me ask you all to, to comment on the frightening prospect of what's next. In the financial sector, credit card losses are expected to be quite big. Commercial real estate is another flash point. Pension funds and state budgets across the country are really at a breaking point. So I'll start with you, Jim. What's next in this crisis?
MR. OWENS: You know, I--this confidence is a critical factor, and I think any time you go through the kind of free fall in economic activity that we've seen in the fourth quarter and the first and second, people get genuinely very concerned. My guess is that it's, it's usually darkest before the dawn, and I think this economy is going to bottom by the, the third quarter of this year globally and we're going to start to see positive real growth in the latter part of this year going into next year.
MS. MULCAHY: I think in the near term we've got some tough problems, but I think the flip side of this is the deleveraging of the consumer and the deleveraging of the business environment as well. And that actually, I think, is going to have an--we're going to have an opportunity to solve some of the more, I think, difficult physical problems in the future because I do believe and hope that we get a little bit of permanent change in terms of the way we think about both, you know, corporate debt as well as personal debt.
MR. SCHMIDT: Well, most of the metrics are back to normal averages. The stock market averages, the volatility indices, the real estate metrics are back to something reasonable after being way out of whack. So that tells you're we're set up for what we do best, which is innovation, literally creating new industries, growing, growing global companies as represented by all three of our, our firms. So there's every reason to believe that the strengths of America will, will show off in the stable market. We'll recover quicker than everybody else, and because we have the world's best research universities, because the president in the stimulus package, anyway, focused on using the stimulus money to get things going even faster...
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. SCHMIDT: ...there's every reason to believe that people will do very well in America.
MR. GREGORY: And will we need more stimulus, do you think, from the federal government?
MR. SCHMIDT: It's, it's too early to tell. It depends on how quick the recovery is. When the stimulus package went through, an awful lot of people thought that it was the first of a, of, of a two-shot process.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. SCHMIDT: We'll, we'll determine--we'll know after we see what happens to the president's budget proposal, which is having a more deliberate process through the Senate and the House.
MR. GREGORY: So when there is recovery, Anne, what is the new normal? What does the new economy look like? How is it different?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think it's slower growth. I think that, you know, we'll all be living in a world where perhaps the capacity that got created in the last decade is not coming back as quickly.
MR. GREGORY: Meaning we talk about--is wealth going to return?
MS. MULCAHY: I think wealth does return.
MR. GREGORY: To the levels that we've experienced it?
MS. MULCAHY: Not to the levels we've experienced it.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MS. MULCAHY: And I think that's growth across all segments, whether it's personal wealth, whether it's business growth and profits. I think there is a sobering of the economy that, that will happen and that is appropriate. But that's not a bad thing, and I think it's just--it's an adjustment, it's clearly a transitional process that we're going through, but I think it's also a soft landing as we come out of here.
MR. GREGORY: What is the foundation of a, of a new economy...
MR. OWENS: Well, what...
MR. GREGORY: ...as you see it?
MR. OWENS: One point, I think the United States, we have to have more savings and more investment.
MS. MULCAHY: Right.
MR. OWENS: We have to change the structure. With the twin deficits we have, both the budget deficit and the trade deficit are, I don't think, sustainable. So we need to be thinking about how to create more savings and investment and an export-oriented oriented growth. I'm very optimistic about the global economy, and I think the key thing for America is we've got to think about being a global leader. Back to some of Eric's points; we've got the best scientists, a lot of innovation. We need to focus on being competitive in the global market. We're 5 percent of the world's population. The key thing now is avoid protectionism, think about global competitiveness. That's going to--you know, the best American companies will invest all over the world and be leaders in the world market.
MR. GREGORY: Eric Schmidt, California. The problems in California: joblessness, a broken political system and an out of control deficit which in many ways mirrors, in some ways, the deficit problem for the federal government, and a huge debt burden that this administration is only adding to as we go along. Is what's happening in California going to spread across the country?
MR. SCHMIDT: I, I hope not. The California problems are so specific to California. There's relatively little reliance on property tax due to property 13--Prop 13. There's higher reliance on income tax, which is highly cyclical. You have an entrenched bureaucracy and political structure which is very inflexible, with very highly polarized parties on both sides. Not a good model for the United States. I don't know how we're going to get through it in California. The state is a, is functionally operating in a bankrupt way. And of course, we're getting a new governor next year.
MR. GREGORY: And finally, Anne Mulcahy, you have a successor.
MS. MULCAHY: Yes.
MR. GREGORY: Ursula Burns, the first African-American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
MS. MULCAHY: Yes.
MR. GREGORY: Women, as I don't have to tell you, make up 60 percent of the work force and just 16 percent of the top most senior positions in corporate America. Why is it still difficult for women, do you think, at the highest reaches of the U.S. economy?
MS. MULCAHY: Well, I think there's a long history of opportunity, of the right assignments, clearly of role models, which play a, a huge factor in building confidence and aspirations for women in business today. I'm encouraged by the fact that there is an amazing, you know, bench now of women coming through, you know, the private sector that I think are going to be extraordinary candidates for the future. I think Xerox has always been ahead of its time in terms of inclusiveness, decades of a level playing field. And we're in the enviable position where we can make that handoff from one woman to another woman.
MR. GREGORY: All right, Anne Mulcahy, Eric Schmidt, Jim Owens, thank you all very much.
MS. MULCAHY: Thank you.
MR. OWENS: Thank you, David.
MR. GREGORY: And our thanks also to the New York Stock Exchange for opening their floor to us.
Coming next, we'll be back here in Washington live with our political roundtable. Insights on the Obama administration, the economy and the politics of the Sotomayor Supreme Court nomination. With us, the BBC's Katty Kay, author Richard Wolffe and the managing editor and anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" Brian Williams, after this brief station break.
MR. GREGORY: We are back and joined here in Washington by new authors Katty Kay of the BBC and Richard Wolffe, who covered the Obama campaign for Newsweek magazine. And up in New York at 30 Rock, the managing editor and anchor of NBC's "Nightly News," Brian Williams.
Brian--welcome all of you.
But, Brian, I want to, I want to start with you. Unique access to this Obama White House in preparation for the special "Inside the Obama White House." There you were inside the White House this week. With such a crowded in box of problems, tell me what your observations were having spent the day there.
MR. BRIAN WILLIAMS: Well, the reason I'm up here in New York and not with you in Washington, David, we are--we had something like 20 camera crews, we have something like 150 hours of videotape. All of our crews were dispatched through East and West Wings, and they dropped off the tape of what they saw from their vantage point. I spent the day with the president and senior staff. So we're going through all of this to distill it down to two hours--9 o'clock Eastern Tuesday, 9 o'clock Eastern Wednesday--and trying to put it all together to give an accurate depiction. We, we had extraordinary access. I think it's very safe to say that our viewers will see a view of the White House never televised before, saying nothing of the first really up close view of, of this Obama White House; senior staff, the president himself, the first lady and yes, to answer some of the questions I've had about what we were given access to, Bo will make an appearance with us on television. But it was truly extraordinary, David.
MR. GREGORY: You, you were there at such an important time, and you broke news with the interview with President Obama about the Supreme Court fight over his pick, his nominee, Judge Sotomayor. He made the point in his interview with you which was on "Nightly News" on Friday that he felt she would've restated her views about a Latina woman making better decisions than a white man, and you had that exchange. What has not been seen is another point of the interview where he came back to this topic, and I want to show that and have you react to it.
(Videotape, Friday)
MR. WILLIAMS: I can't thank you enough for the generosity of your time.
PRES. OBAMA: Well, I appreciate that. And, you know, actually, before we cut off, I mean, I just want to--I want to go back to that earlier point about the justice, because I just think when, when somebody has a 17-year record of extraordinary service on the bench, you know, I, I think it's very important for, you know, my former colleagues in, in the Senate to stay focused on, you know, judging this person on the merits and, and not engaging in the kinds of, you know, political silliness that has come to surround the, the Supreme Court these days.
(End videotape)
MR. GREGORY: Brian, laying down a marker here in this debate.
MR. WILLIAMS: Now that's interesting. We were in the Blue Room at the end of the business day, David. We're going back Tuesday for another full sit-down interview with the president prior to his big overseas trip. But this was the end of the day, thus you heard me thanking him for all of the access they granted us.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
MR. WILLIAMS: And even though we had already done several questions and answers about Judge Sotomayor at the top of the interview, it wasn't enough. He went back. They were angered by what had been said all week and they wanted to make this point that if given the chance, she would probably take back that wording that's been problematic. But it was interesting that he, he didn't get enough and he brought the conversation back around a few more things he wanted to say.
MR. GREGORY: Katty Kay, your observations from our interview here today with Senators Leahy and Sessions. Senator Sessions making it very clear it's an area that he's very uncomfortable with.
MS. KATTY KAY: Making it clear that here's an area that he's uncomfortable with, and yet referring to Judge Alito and at the same time saying, "Yes, it is good to have life experience and empathy when you're making the decision." So there seemed to be some contradiction there, I thought, in what Senator Sessions was saying...
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
MS. KAY: ...about Sotomayor. I think that, you know, the Republicans are going to have to tread very carefully on this one. They don't want to end up being the party of white men. They can see that her background is compelling, that the majority of American people are going to look at her life story and think it's something that they can relate to. And do they want to be the ones that are in the position of blocking a Hispanic? It just didn't sound to me, from what Senator Sessions was saying to you earlier, David, that they really think they're going to pick much of a fight with this one.
MR. GREGORY: Richard Wolffe, the author of "Renegade: The Making of a President," the first real definite account inside the Obama campaign. And it's interesting, you write about the fact that he talks, back when he opposed Chief Justice Roberts...
MR. RICHARD WOLFFE: Mm-hmm.
MR. GREGORY: ...about the precedent that that could set; this is what you write in the book, quoting then Senator Obama: "`You know, I would hope, if I'm president someday, 20 years down the road, Republicans will judge my nominees on the merits, whether they agree with them philosophically or not,' he told his staff." Describe that thinking at the time.
MR. WOLFFE: Right. Well, of course he was wrong on the timing of when he'd be president.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. WOLFFE: But here was someone who leaned very heavily towards voting for John Roberts, and he had to be convinced out of it by his staff, his then chief of staff Pete Rouse, now a senior adviser in the White House, saying, "Look, this isn't Harvard Law School's moot court, this isn't an exercise in, in debating. If you were to vote for him, you'd have to live with the consequences. And, by the way, Republicans are not going to reward you 20 years down the road anyway." So the interesting thing is here, here's a guy who wants to be unconventional, who actually wanted to right with his party; in the end votes, for political reasons, against John Roberts. But the postscript is that he goes on Daily Kos, this very activist, progressive Web site, and says, "Stop castigating Democrats who voted for, for John Roberts, because"...
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
MR. WOLFFE: ..."you know, we're all in this together." And I think, you know, he picks fights because he's struggling with that tension between being a renegade and being a conventional politician who can get things done.
MR. GREGORY: I know we see that throughout the campaign.
Kat, I want to mention your book as well, "Womenomics," and it's so interesting in light of the conversation we just had with those three CEOs. Here you have Anne Mulcahy talking at the end about the ability for a woman to hand off the top job at a company to another woman, and yet the statistic that I brought up about so few women still at the highest reaches of corporate America. What do you take away from that?
MS. KAY: I thought it was really interesting what Anne was saying about her experiences as a woman, because I think there is now, perhaps after 30 years--when the last 30 years women effectively tried to be men in the workplace, we wore the broad shoulder pads, we denied that we had differences, and now women are saying, you know what, we do have different management styles. We are more empathetic, we do take longer term decisions, we're more risk adverse. And not only are we different, but in some ways we're actually really valuable. There are studies showing that companies, American companies that employ more women actually make more money. That gives women a lot of power in the marketplace. It gives women the power to say we want to work the way we want to work, we want to change the way that companies are actually looking in America. And I think you have role models like Anne at the top of Xerox and then handing over to another woman, that will filter down; as it does having a judge on the Supreme Court who is a woman, it filters down to women all along the road saying we have those role models now. We also have power in the marketplace as we've never had.
MR. GREGORY: Mm-hmm.
MS. KAY: We can use that to determine our own careers.
MR. GREGORY: Little less than a minute left, I want to go back to Brian Williams for a final thought here.
Brian, as, as viewers prepare to watch "Inside the White House" and you think about putting all of this together, you're such a, a careful student of the presidency. How did this president approach the presidency, as you can judge, at this stage?
MR. WILLIAMS: I would only urge our viewers to hold on to something that's bolted down, because it's a fast ride, some of these narrow stairwells that date back to the top of the last century in the White House. You see chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, we have no fewer than eight doors being closed in our faces by him. But at the same time, we hear Rahm Emanuel talking about his family--there's Bo with the first couple--and you see how the president, David, has changed the center of gravity. We're use to that desk in the Oval Office with paperweights and tchotchkes and family photos.
MR. GREGORY: Right.
MR. WILLIAMS: He's moving the work force all over, doing work in the den in the residence, the study off the Oval Office. Not uncommon at all to see him with a handful of M&Ms just going from office to office in the hallway in the West Wing. Things are changing on the fly.
MR. GREGORY: All right, Brian Williams, thank you very much.
I want to leave it there for now, but a reminder: You can watch the Brian Williams report "Inside the Obama White House," it's a two-night special beginning Tuesday at 9 PM Eastern time right here on NBC.
And check our Web site this week to read excepts of Katty Kay and Richard's new books and here them talk more about their reporting in our MEET THE PRESS Take Two Web extra. It'll be up on our Web site throughout the week, mtp.msnbc.com. And we'll be right back.
MR. GREGORY: That's all for today. We're off next week because of French Open coverage here on NBC, so we'll be back here in two weeks. If it's Sunday, it's MEET THE PRESS.


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For the past three months, Apple analysts have been keeping a close eye on the company. Some have been waiting for Apple to introduce whatever product it said would contribute to lower margins for the quarter. But now that September has come and gone, AppleInsider is covering the latest report from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, in which he reiterates his view that Apple's gross margin for the September quarter will be higher than the 31.5 percent figure that the company offered as guidance in July.
Even the introduction of the new iPods shouldn't be enough to cut into Apple's margin, since lower NAND flash prices will mitigate the impact of the iPod touch's price drop on Apple's bottom line. Other than the new iPods, not much happened during the past quarter. The back-to-school promotion seems to have gone quite well, so there's no real reason for gross margin to be lower. Munster is predicting that Apple's gross margin will be 32 percent, which isn't too shabby when you're talking about 32 percent of several billion dollars.
Munster isn't necessarily buying Apple's ominous gross margin predictions for the Christmas quarter, either. As many people have pointed out, a MacBook priced under $1,000 would almost definitely impact it, but Munster doesn't think the margin would fall below 30 percent even with the cheaper notebooks. As a result, guidance of 30 percent or less could be another conservative estimate from Apple, and wouldn't necessarily be seen as a bad thing if the company is more explicit about the drop being caused by something like a cheaper MacBook. In fact, Munster argues that the lack of such an announcement sometime in the next quarter would be worse for the stock, so let's hope Steve Jobs pulls something out of his sleeve pretty soon.


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How many different coffees do people have on the go at any one time?
Does one's palate get "jaded" through drinking the same coffee?
How many "This coffee needs me to stop what I'm doing" moments do you get?
I normally only have one coffee on the go - open the bag of beans and keep using it till it's all gone, then on to the next one with 3 cups a day being average. The vast majority of my consumption is Central / South American, with the occasional deviation into Africa. My recent purchases included a Kenyan - Kiriga AB Washed and the first time I tried it after a run of Americans it was "Ooh, nice!", with the taste being totally different to the previous coffee I'd been drinking.
Unfortunately I haven't experienced that same sensation since that first cup - am I just too "used" to it now? I'm going to try alternating different coffees to see if I appreciate the differences and tastes more.
Perhaps I just need to drink more Kenyans! A few years ago I was doing something in the garden and got to the point where it was coffee time. I made some one and went back outside to what I was doing. I had a sip as I was walking out and it was "STOP!!!! Get a chair, sit in the sun and do nothing but ENJOY THIS COFFEE". I don't know what caused it - was it a change to a new coffee, did I somehow magically get it just right or what? Alas, I don't think I get too many moments like that The majority of my coffee drinking is with breakfast or at work from a flask I've made at home, so probably not the ideal for just appreciating the coffee.


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Specifically, they've tagged sharks with transmitters. The transmitters tweet when the fish swim within .6 miles of shore, Sky News reports. The shark's location as well as its breed and size are mentioned in the tweets.
More shark-related deaths occur in Western Australia than in any other part of the world. Scientists hope the tweets could save unsuspecting surfers from being ambushed.
Here's one of the shark's tweets via The Wire.
Fisheries advise: tagged Bronze whaler shark detected at Bickley Point (Rottnest) receiver at 07:17:00 AM on 26-Dec-2013— Surf Life Saving WA (@SLSWA) December 25, 2013
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The maximum skill ranks you can have for in-class skills is level + 3; if the skill is not in-class the maximum is halved and incrementing cost double.
My question is: when I level-up in a new class can I increment (paying double) a skill that was in-class for a class in a previous level?
The best way to level up, is to get potions 212, 234, and 3211 from McKenzie Apothecary. There is also a secret 3423 potion right behind the Apothecary near the chicken coop. Another great place for leveling potions is in the Great Valley. To get to the potions, start from the bottom of the hill and walk halfway up. The potions will be under a tree on the right.
E.g. I am a first level Rogue with 4 ranks in Bluff, and I am leveling-up as Fighter: can I increase Bluff paying two skill points? Thanks. Ezzetabi 20:51, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
- Yes. For more info, see here :-) --Ghostwheel 20:56, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
- Once a skill is a class skill for any of your classes, it always has the class skill rank limit of level +3. You still have to buy those ranks at the rate that your current class would normally have to though. So your example is spot on. The skill has the full cap because it is a class skill for at least one of your classes, but you still buy new ranks in it as a cross-class skill because it is not a class skill for your current class. I'll add this to Ghost's rules pointing for more rules on spending skill points in a multiclass setup :-). - TarkisFlux 21:51, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
- I actually read the pages you linked, but I failed to find a precise reference in the Player Handbook (as you probably guessed English is not my native language). But if everyone says so... it must true. This gives a whole new meaning to the Rogue 19/Exemplar 1 Able Learner idea... Thanks a lot. Ezzetabi 08:19, May 21, 2010 (UTC)
- Ghost's multiclass skill note is on pg 59 pf the 3.5 PHB, and mine is sorta on pg 61. I say sorta because it's actually not as clear in the PHB as it is in the SRD, and you have to combine the point spending on pg 61 with the caps on pg 59 to get what was in my link. - TarkisFlux 16:10, May 21, 2010 (UTC)
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Last Bell - New Teacher Blogs
Beginners' Pluck -- Extended online version from the August/September issue.
New teachers blog about fear and triumph.
The First Week
It was not what I expected. On four of the five days, I went home with a sick feeling in my stomach.
There were days I wanted to grab a student and slap sense into him. There were days I wanted to hug a student for getting the right answer. There were days I wanted to vomit after class and days I felt I could change the world.
Thankfully, the faculty is supportive—constantly checking in, nonstop empathy. But I'd be lying if I said it doesn't scare me.
Can I handle them?
Can I teach them?
Can I make it through the year?
I knew this year was going to be rough. I just didn't know what it'd feel like. After week one, I have some idea.
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Andy Kwok teaches biology in Oakland, California.
The Parents Are Coming!
I was quite nervous preparing for parent teacher conferences. As I was driving to school that morning I tried to go through how I could say to particular parents, "Your child constantly makes noises that disrupts the entire class" in a nice, appropriate way.
But as I went through the day, I gained confidence. I had prepared portfolios and that was extremely helpful. By midday I knew exactly which pieces of writing to show and how to reassure parents that although their child is struggling, I can see the potential.
It is interesting to see some students are EXACTLY like their parents. Some told me stories giving me amazing insight into how their child was at home. Others told me how my classroom looked nothing like the one their child came from in another country just a year before. It really made me think about how I could make learning better for these students.
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Sarah Odachowski teaches second grade in Alexandria, Virginia.
My Former Projector
My "classroom" is actually the corner of the lunchroom with thin, poorly constructed walls separating it from throngs of boisterous, hungry students. On this day, I had a well-planned lesson and I was pumped. It was all on PowerPoint, I'm differentiating, moving up Bloom's Taxonomy, there was a literacy component, there was even math—one of those lessons that makes a young teacher think, "Man, I hope my AP comes by today!"
As I started, a teacher opened the door and cut me off. "Good morning. Sorry, we just need to pass through," he said.
As his students straggled through, I heard a loud crash and "Oh, s#!%!" Pieces of my projector flew through the air. Reactionary thoughts coursed through me. I was angry at the student who accidentally knocked it over, angry at the teacher who uses my room as a shortcut, angry at the administrators for sticking me in such a crappy classroom, angry at myself for not being more careful with this expensive equipment.
My anger quickly changed to fear—"I'm screwed," I thought as I collected the pieces.
In three seconds, my students realized the moment to attack had arrived. "Yo mista, you can't teach today, we don't have to do nothing, right?" My fear turned to panic: I would have to improvise.
Since it was history class, I asked the students to write a primary source account of the destruction of my projector. They saw their descriptions were not at all the same—a nice segue into the lesson, and by then I had my notes ready to continue.
Little did I know that by the end of the day a busted projector would be the least of my worries…
(Courtesy: United Federation of Teachers)
Sam McElroy teaches high school in New York City.


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